Phone Numbers Shown in Xobni

I think the latest version of Xobni includes a lot of improvements related to the phone numbers displayed. However, there are some forum posts about phone numbers (this one in particular: http://community.xobni.com/xobni/topi...) which I think have some good ideas. To help keep these possible improvements in front of development, I have added this idea topic.

1) It could be better for some users if there was an option in Xobni to “show phone numbers found by searching mails”. This would be checked by default and is what Xobni does now. However, if a user didn’t want this and ONLY wanted phone numbers to come from what was entered in the Outlook Contact info, this could be unchecked.

2) There should be some priority used for the numbers displayed per type. Some users might want the Outlook Contact numbers displayed first. The downside is that if a person has changed numbers, Xobni might find that from a mail before the user has updated his/her Outlook Contact info. To handle this, I would suggest the following:
a) An option in Xobni to determine which numbers have priority in the display (e.g. “take from Outlook contact first” OR “take from found mails first”).
b) When Xobni displays a number for a number type, there should be a flashing icon next to the number if a conflict was found. The user can then click that to see information about the number. For example: Office Phone - Outlook Contact shows (111) 222-3333 but email shows (444) 555-6666 (tooltip with email snippet). It would be nice if there was a button there the user could then click to:
a) update the Outlook Contact with that number
b) disregard the number in the mail

3) I would also like for Xobni to clearly mark any numbers extracted from emails everywhere they are shown so that I know to double check them before use (perhaps highlight them in yellow or something).

4) Since there can be a lot of numbers for a person (and since the sidebar section for the numbers is limited in size), perhaps it would be best to have a button (like the buttons for LinkedIn, Facebook, etc...) to see all the phone numbers You could still show a couple in the normal section, but spillover would visible as well. For example:
Business
Cell
Home
Fax
Etc...

Just so that everyone knows this, if you are curious about the source of a number shown by Xobni, you can currently place your mouse pointer over it and see where it came from (like a snippet of the email where it was found).
 
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